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100 _aNeocleous, Mark
245 0 _aCritique of security/
_cMark Neocleous.
260 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c c2008.
300 _avi, 247 p. ; 24 cm.
504 _aBibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aThe supreme concept of bourgeois society: liberalism and the technique of security. Security, sovereignty, prerogative. Liberty in security and liberal insecurity. Prerogative and necessity: towards emergency -- Emergency? What emergency? Martial law to emergency powers. Walter Benjamin goes to Senate. Against normality -- From social to national security: on the fabrication of economic order -- garden of security, or 'Security -- this is more like it' -- Containment I: national security, international order and six million corpses -- Security, identity, loyalty -- Containment II: national security, domestic order and the fear of disintegration -- garden of pansies, or 'no communists or cocksuckers in the library' -- Company and the Campus -- Security fetishism -- Security intellectuals -- Closing gambit: return the gift.
650 _a National security -- Political aspects
650 _aSecurity, International
_xState, The
650 _aLiberalism -- Social control.
942 _cWB16